The New Nutritional Pyramid

To feed themselves and to make exercise well, are steps important to maintain the good health. The Department of Agriculture of the United States has presented the new pyramid nutritional, with the purpose of to remember to us that we must choose more healthful foods and be active every day. The new pyramid is a customized approach so that the people find a balance between whom they eat and their physical activity.

Nutritional groups in the pyramid

Grains - it consumes half in integral grains

-Here the cereals, breads, cakes, rice are included or grazes.
-It begins with a good breakfast and it chooses an integral grain cereal.
-It prefers the integral bread to the white bread.

Vegetables variety

-It chooses major amount of vegetables of dark green color like brcoli and the spinach.
-It consumes major amount of vegetables color orange like the carrots and sweet potatoes.
-It eats major amount of kidney beans and peas like pinto, red kidney beans and lentils.

Fruits

-It consumes variety of fruits. It chooses fresh fruits, congealed, tinned or dry. You do not take much amount from juice of frutas.y asegrate that is 100% juice.

Milky products

It drinks milk. Milk has calcium that contributes to have strong bones. It chooses milk and yogurt low in fats.If you cannot take milk, takes drinks enriquesidas with calcium.

Meats and Kidney beans

It eats fat meats, chicken, turkey and fish of low content. It is better than they are cooked to the furnace, grill or irons. It also consumes fish, kidney beans, peas, nuts and seeds, are good sources of proteins.

It knows the new nutritional pyramid:

• The person raising the stairs remembers to you that you do something active every day, like running, swimming, to run bicycle or to practice some sport.
• Each color, every day. The different colors represent the 5 nutritional groups plus fats. Every day you must eat of all the groups.
• As time some strips of colors are wider than others, which means that you must choose more foods of the groups with wide strips.
• The strips are wider down than above. Each nutritional group has foods you must consume that them more than others and are those that are in the base of the pyramid.

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